COMPASS: Composition-centric mapping of aspectual requirements to architecture

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4640 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 3-53

  Chitchyan, Ruzanna ^a   Pinto, Mónica ^b   Rashid, Awais ^a   Fuentes, Lidia ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Architecture composition; Architecture design; Aspect oriented software development; Early aspects; Requirements composition; Requirements engineering; Requirements to architecture mapping

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

ASPECT-ORIENTED REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; COMPATIBILITY;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 38549167066     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77042-8_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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